I would be concerned that students would skip the essay component if it was a low percentage - which would then defeat the entire purpose. It might just be an NZ problem as high school students “pick” which assessments they complete until they’ve got enough marks (credits) to get them over the line

Surely at this point defy the gods is just a catch phrase that any “mythological” movie has to include purely because otherwise we won’t know it’s supposed to be mythological? :p

And it gets better “
“The Marsden Fund will continue to support excellent researchers in New Zealand, who are looking to create a better country for us”… I guess humanities scholars just don’t care about a better Aotearoa

Please add me to this :) currently working on classics and video games and deicide in the MCU

this is totally my three year old at the moment. If only English wasn’t so stupid!

Ancient Magic and the Supernatural in the Modern Visual and Performing Arts (Bloomsbury Studies in Classical Reception)
Filippo Carlá & Irene Berti (Editors). Might also be useful

Art Pomeroy definitely has a chapter on magical ancient languages in Buffy in the book “and then it was destroyed by the volcano”

I've only just started Rage of the Titans, so perhaps my view might change =) But I do have a soft spot for sci-fi so I think Neo Rome is what does it for me

@gamingthepast.bsky.social, if you give me a day or two I can get a more formal list (including the publisher, for example) to you =) Just let me know if that would be helpful

and for good measure, Imperial Destiny: Path of Gold (a tycoon sim) - but it might be a bit 'racy' for your context as part of the way you 'earn' money is by "collecting" partners and "producing" offspring; and some other fun ones Grow Empire: Rome (a hoard defence) & Gladiator Heroes of Kingdoms

Plus all the usual 'suspects' in the Civ-Builder genre that give you 'Rome' and 'Caesar' as one of many ancient civs/individuals: Rise of Cultures: Kingdom Game; Rise of Kingdoms; Land of Empires; Rise of the Roman Empire: Rome; Era of Conquest: Warfare; Epic Age.

also Game of Nations: Epic Discord (hero collector); Gladiators: Survival in Rome (my personal favourite!); Empire City: Civilization Dawn (a civ-builder/simulator that is roman-ish - from memory I'm not sure if Rome is mentioned or if its a generic empire, but aesthetically, its very Roman)

Opps sorry I missed this. I think some of my favourite ones would be Jewels of Rome (match 3); Roads of Rome (time management); Romance Club – Stories I Play: Gladiator Chronicles (while I'm not the target audience, I'm totally hooked on this one); Ancient Allies: TD (tower defense)...